The Night of the Weeping Women Author:Lawrence Naumoff Originally published in 1988, this first novel by Lawrence Naumoff, a native of North Carolina and a teacher at UNC Chapel Hill, is often called his most recognizably Southern. It follows the lives of a young woman married to who she believed to be a good man -- not like her father. She had thought that she has escaped her childhood, and all the... more » things that happened, mostly relating to her father, who lives in a darkly comic world of 'benign' racism. He is oblivious to almost everything, including to his long suffering -- also rendered in a darkly comic way -- wife.
The book moves between humor and the serious business of Sally trying so hard to fix her life. The lives of the daughter, her husband, their parents, and an endearing street girl, all eventually enter the zone of truth and courage and responsibility of the events in their past, and they can then move on. « less